On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 10:13 AM Marshall Clow via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The first release candidates for the 1.74.0 release are now available at:

<https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.74.0/source/>

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:

9ea3fc8573413f4d4b2c4d448110b6cb0467df834304112e143c7edb09ae71e9  boost_1_74_0_rc1.7z
8b6c429a41f7cac1880594adf8d1d6f0cc1cf19f8980c6b86ac38ef8b3d8a4e0  boost_1_74_0_rc1.tar.bz2
a0a96a9bb3863863e034cafc825b2ddba4249c7d278b76df1277295e7c7afbf2  boost_1_74_0_rc1.tar.gz
d4f31cce9d5fbd55691dc2f5fb73380e95aa66426c891ceb3ebdfc6616022842  boost_1_74_0_rc1.zip

As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the
candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both
success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.

-- The Release managers

Looks good for the windows/visual studio build. 

toolset     arch    compile Link    Execute
msvc-10.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.2   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.2   64      X       X       X

Compile means that the b2 command completed without errors
Link means that visual studio was able to link a sample executable to a library (libboost_thread-vcXXX-mt[-gd]-1_XX.lib) generated
Execute means that the linked program executed without errors.

Full build logs can be found here: 
https://gist.github.com/teeks99/bc3e05569228187df4aae5dc671ecc3e

Tom